Sentences with phrase «rather accept things»

Wouldn't you rather accept things as they actually are rather than as you wish them to be?

Not exact matches

But rather than passing judgment on whether globalization is a wonderful or a terrible thing, Easterbrook accepts it as a mixed bag, foreseeing «an endless tumult of improved living standards wrapped with ribbons of stress, anxiety and dissatisfaction.

Rather than simply accepting low savings account rates, there are 7 things you can do to get more return on your savings.

Rather than doing things halfway, the Ghent Bitcoincity team was able to present a complete package so that any merchant could accept Bitcoin payments within a few hours from agreeing to do so.

What dismays me about Miley Cyrus is the same thing that dismays me about the current trend of instantly going to the allowable limit (and a bit over) in dress and act: I get the feeling she feels like she's proving something; that this is not an artistic statement of anything but rather, that she feels like she needs to do this to be accepted as a female singer and entertainer.

Come on folks, there is no single standard folks because we all, intentionally or not, pay the money to hear him, see them, or use them rather that take a stand a accept that we may be a little uncomfortable if we do the right thing.

It includes the processive, societal, dynamic picture of the cosmos; it sees that we have to do with events or happenings and not with inert and static «things»; it insists on genuine freedom and readiness to accept the consequences of decisions made in that freedom; and it is prepared to see that however difficult this may seem to be, it is persuasion rather than coercion which in the long run is effective in the world.

If I do accept myself, seeing myself as I am rather than as I wish I was, I will see things that I will weep over, but acknowledge my helplessness, give up on the holiness project and gratefully depend on grace — I am less likely to do the things I wish were different.

I'm still working all this out in my head, but as a woman who has grown to accept her ambitious spirit rather than resist it (perhaps because of my upbringing, perhaps because of Dan's influence and support, perhaps because of that whole Enneagram Type 1 thing), I offer just a few observations that I hope we can discuss further in the comment section:

Isn't the point of having rational thought partly so that we can call into question the things that we are unsure of, rather than continue to blindly accept them?

It is so sad that so many atheists will spend most of their lives fighting and arguing against the very thing that can save them, only to die and go to hell and then to spend eternity regretting the fact that they wasted all of their time arguing about it rather than just accepting it, rather than just believing, and a belief that could have saved them.

The statistics are merely sets of data measured in a specific context and at least the person who posted them had the respect to allow us to make our own interpretation rather than inserting his own opinion which is what Buddha actually wanted people to do... not just accept things on blind faith but interpret for themselves and experience for themselves.

Its time more Christians learn the real thing rather than just accepting alter calls!

I pretty much agreed with most of what you have said and i think that the sinners prayer has been misused as a get out of Jail free card.A couple of things that people miss is that God is in charge.As soon as you offer yourself to God and accept Jesus Chris the holy spirit has liberty to work on you.Because he loves us he will discipline us so that we do repent of our sins.The downside of living a walk like that you are a hypocrite until you admit your sinfulness the holy spirit can not help us because of our pride.The second part was you talking about disciplining the flesh personally you cant discipline that which is corrupt our hearts are deceitfully wicked we need new hearts no amount of effort on our part will transform our hearts that is the work of the holy spirit he changes our hearts so that we no longer desire to sin we would rather serve the Lord with all our hearts instead.brentnz

I believe that it is critical to follow Jesus from the stance of already being approved, forgiven, loved, and accepted, rather than trying to live in a way that earns such things.

I think the author is displaying the best of being Jewish — critical thinking, questioning why she does things rather than just accepting everything with no questioning (which is very anti-Jewish in my opinion and seems to be what you suggest.)

Suffice it to say that the conceptuality which I accept — and accept because it seems to do justice to deep analysis of human experience and observation, as well as to the knowledge we now have of the way «things go» in the world — lays stress on the dynamic «event» character of that world; on the inter-relationships which exist in what is a societal universe, on the inadequacy of «substance» thinking to describe such a universe of «becoming» and «belonging», on the place of decisions in freedom by the creatures with the consequences which such decisions bring about, and on the central importance of persuasion rather than coercive force as a clue to the «going» of things in that universe.

Laimbeer has said he will retire rather than accept a trade, which leaves Dumars, the closest thing the Pistons have to an untouchable.

Because our picky kid was our third kid, I had no choice but to accept this as a thing about HIM rather than a thing about ME.

By the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolution.

Senyo Hosi in his writ quoted Kennedy Agyapong of saying: ``... The man was promised one million dollars, he didn't take it... It is rather the one million dollars people who were going to do the contamination thing... I don't know that Hosi whoever Senyo [is] but I have all this evidence against them... If that guy is on it [the committee], if they bring any report, nobody will accept it because for someone who has gone to offer one million dollars... How can Boakye Agyarko the minister involve him... that guys should be thrown out completely... He should question the quy and let him face me.»

There are many obvious things that could be done — all stem from accepting that in order to «give a stronger impulse... to scientific inquiry», as the BA set its objectives in the last century, it is now better to reach millions of readers, rather than address a few dozen listeners.

So realize that we all have crappy times, and accept them sometimes, rather than trying to push against things that are annoying you at an inopportune time.

It was pretty groundbreaking stuff at the time, because rather than the prevailing, societally accepted view, which believed that man was at the apex of all things, Darwin put forth this idea that each species followed its own independent course of evolution, but with repeating structures and patterns, common solutions to biological problems appearing again and again.

Rather than accept fault, they lay it at the feet of others; blaming everyone from their parents to their partner for their own poor behaviour.4 If there's one thing dating a narcissist teaches you, it's that this infuriating, childish tactic isn't healthy for any relationship: there's much more room for mutual growth and happiness when you date someone who has the maturity to admit (and fix) their own mistakes.

He's obsessed with the movie Signs, but the filmmakers seem to accept, rather than ridicule, that it is simply the thing that helped him crystallize his fatalistic belief system, and that if his worldview were less limited by circumstances — namely, depression — he would perhaps have latched onto something more highbrow.

i note that justin long's character name in «Accepted» is Bartleby Gaines, and wonder if it's some sort of nod of the head on the part of the writers» to Melville's «Bartleby» the scrivner who doesn't work or live like the other clerks and scrivners around him, and isn't accepted by them because he «would rather not» be somebody, or fit into the accepted way of doingAccepted» is Bartleby Gaines, and wonder if it's some sort of nod of the head on the part of the writers» to Melville's «Bartleby» the scrivner who doesn't work or live like the other clerks and scrivners around him, and isn't accepted by them because he «would rather not» be somebody, or fit into the accepted way of doingaccepted by them because he «would rather not» be somebody, or fit into the accepted way of doingaccepted way of doing things.

Rather than accept a future of low - skill, low - wage work for our impoverished young people, we aspire to build their «human capital» — their knowledge, skills, capabilities, talents, habits, character, however you want to phrase it — so that, among other things, the labor market will one day repay their contributions to society with a wage that far exceeds any minimums.

One thing that impressed me, — they said they wouldn't accept a book they didn't think was worth the time of their readers and rather than find that blunt and in - your - face, it reassured me.

That way, she also learns how to keep track of things and how to figure things out, rather just learning to have the guy at the brokerage hand her an account statement which she blindly accepts.

Because they didn't want any more snooping and would have rather made gamers in general look bad then accept any responsibility for what they did behind closed doors, they were afraid more things came to light if they dug any more.

Cai also arrived in Japan at the height of revisionist debates concerning Mono - ha (literally «School of Things»), a movement that had changed the course of Japanese art in the late 1960s by accepting Asia as a center, rather than periphery, of contemporary artistic practice and discourse.

Rather than accepting such mistakes, here are the sorts of things our representatives to UN climate conferences must raise.

It's rather like accepting that all the components of an airplane will work, but if they are put together as suggested by the engineer the thing will still not fly.

The notion that there is such a thing as progress of mankind as a whole was unknown prior to the seventeenth century, developed into a rather common opinion among the eighteenth - century hommes de lettres, and became an almost univerally accepted dogma in the nineteenth....

I wonder if the problem here is one of partisan activity — given that Mr Trump was not running for office here — or rather one of supporting a person who has notoriously incited racist and misogynist passions, supported the commission of war crimes, and said and done many things repugnant to accepted conduct in Canada.

One of the first things that I can tell you about Aceable is that they are an online driver's education course which is accepted as a proper form of education by 7 out of the 50 states so far, and they're gaining momentum in other states rather quickly as one of the best online driver's courses out there.

Rather than simply accepting that a disaster or robbery can do a lot of harm to your personal possessions, you will want to get a Texas renters insurance plan that will cover the investment that you have made in these things.

Shannon strives to create a brave space where clients can be vulnerable, try new things and speak openly where they feel accepted rather than judged.»

They want to learn things for themselves rather than accepting what others say, so they test the limits over and over.

By understanding why we choose one thing over another, and accepting the anxiety inherent in this exploration, we control our world rather than being controlled by it.